Tax practice

President Obama urged the Republican-dominated Congress to move ahead on tax reform to lower taxes on middle-class families during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.

Working together with a number of agencies, including Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, Interpol and local police departments, the IRS Criminal Investigation unit has helped bring to justice dozens of members of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The Internal Revenue Service began accepting electronically filed individual tax returns Tuesday, opening the tax season on time this year despite its latest budget crunch.

Three New York residents, including one former IRS employee, have been indicted in federal court for defrauding the U.S. government by filing false claims for millions in false refunds.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced legislation to discourage U.S. corporations from merging with overseas companies to lower their tax bills in a strategy known as inversion that changes the company’s tax domicile.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

President Barack Obama is proposing new taxes on the wealthiest Americans that would limit their profits from investments and make it harder for them to pass assets to heirs.

The Treasury Department and the IRS have released proposed regulations on the application of the research tax credit for internal use at companies in an effort to provide better clarity to businesses and tax professionals on the proper rules.

The Internal Revenue Service is eliminating the extended weekday hours, Saturday and President’s Day availability of its e-help desk service due to budget cuts.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued newly updated procedures for changing a business’s method of accounting for income tax purposes.

A New Orleans woman is facing multiple felony charges for a tax fraud scheme that involved filing false state income tax returns in the names of unsuspecting people, including some prison inmates, according to Louisiana authorities.

A new report finds that every state tax system, with the exception of the District of Columbia, taxes its poorest residents at significantly higher tax rates than the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers.

The Internal Revenue Service is on the verge of kicking off tax season, opening its Free File service on Friday and electronic filing next Tuesday, while dealing with the latest round of budget cuts that promise to further curtail customer service as the IRS prepares for an onslaught of questions related to the Affordable Care Act.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have formed five bipartisan working groups with the goal of analyzing the tax code and developing policy recommendations for comprehensive tax reform.

Obamacare is about to collide with the U.S. tax-filing season, adding frustration for millions of taxpayers trying to figure out how to comply and how much they will owe the government.

A Louisiana woman and her son are facing fraud charges for their work as tax preparers.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The House voted Wednesday to approve legislation rolling back a variety of financial regulations on business, including a requirement for companies with less than $250 million in annual revenue to file their financials in Extensible Business Reporting Language format with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The latest plan in Congress to cut business tax rates faces a major obstacle: U.S. businesses.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson released her 2014 Annual Report to Congress, which expresses concern that taxpayers this year are likely to receive the worst levels of taxpayer service since 2001 when the IRS implemented its current performance measures.